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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by onethought on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:16PM (#36144451)
So what is the scenario that we should be worried about? Because I’ve only heard skynet prophecies.

Or weird nanobot bullshit.

Is there a really boring possible outcome that leads to the destruction of humanity?

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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by JohnFen on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:05PM (#36145008)
The biggest risk I see is massive socioeconomic disruption as AI replaces more and more workers and those workers can no longer earn a living.

The second biggest risk is just humans being afraid. A scared human is a dangerous, irrational human.

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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by digging on Friday June 02, 2023 @03:08PM (#36169411)
Why does it need to be boring to be credible? Anything is non-credible if you arbitrarily label it to be "weird ... bullshit". That doesn't make your arguments sound.
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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by onethought on Saturday June 03, 2023 @07:48PM (#36181639)
Nanobots don’t exist in any meaningful let alone threatening way. So any ai scenario involving them is bullshit, and actually about nanotech not ai. That’s what you hear from the likes of Yudkowsky.

It doesn’t have to be boring, but boring sounds more likely to me, because it’s soemthing we don’t think much about… because it’s boring.

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